Top 15 Most Popular ATARI 2600 Games

[@statsingraphs9914]

What's your favorite atari game???

[@brizalti]

Adventure

[@imaxjunior6531]

That's a hard question - 'Stargate'

[@ionia23]

For two players, without a doubt, Combat or Indy 500. :) Simple, flat out mindless fun. And the co-op game variant of Space Invaders Single player: Demon Attack Robot Tank

[@brunosemi]

Frostbite! ❄

[@JosephRomano]

Pitfall is definitely my favorite. Specially the sequel👍

[@nocarthur2359]

The final totals may be correct, but the timing is way off. No way Pac-Man for Atari 2600 was still selling in the 1990's....

[@maztr_0n81]

I was equally shocked but yet it still sold into 1990-91

[@akira808state4]

The Pole Position shown here is the arcade version, not the 2600 version.

[@zombee38]

True ! I just wished that back in the day it would look like that LoL

[@GregsGameRoom]

In your video, the rate which sales are added seems to be consistent throughout the years. But Pac-Man, for example, made nearly all of it's sales before the crash in 1984. It certainly wasn't selling at the same rate from 1984-1992.

[@statsingraphs9914]

yes, this is because to simplify the graph I put the sales that grow linearly during the lifespan of the consoles, also because it is very difficult to find real data over time for all consoles, especially for the old ones 🙂

[@garypranzo9334]

It was a pack-in game for later consoles so I am guessing that is counted

[@fredlcore]

@@statsingraphs9914 I love these kind of videos, but people may take your content as facts, so if you do not have data per year (or even down to individual months as your video suggests), then it would be very helpful if you can make that very clear in the beginning that no other data other than the total sales is available and that the sales depicted here are just linear estimates. There are enough urban myths floating around about retro computing, and we don't need one that says that in 1992, almost 400,000 copies of Pitfall were sold for the Atari 2600 ;)...

[@zoiks6631]

@@statsingraphs9914So you’re saying this video should have been a graphic

[@Jarod_Schultz]

Enduro is my favorite.

[@relaxtakeiteasy2834]

Unfortunately I have not had the opportunity to play it but if I can recover it, I would like to experience the thrill of video games of 40 years ago 😜

[@mikewright8304]

Solaris is my alltime favorite. If this is on the 50th anniversary game that will be an instant day one buy

[@feralstorm]

Not sure where this info is coming from, considering some games shown here are making bank a year or more before they were actually released.

[@statsingraphs9914]

Hi, thanks for comment. As I also wrote in the description, the data comes from wikipedia and other online articles so they may not be 100% correct. The purpose of the video is more to give a general idea of ​​the most successful atari games.😉

[@ionia23]

Yeah, the Pac-Man one is not quite close as it became the pack-in title included starting in 1981. It was universally hated back then. I remember blowing allowance that I'd been saving for months to get it on launch day, which at 39.95 for a nine year old in 1981 was an obscenity, and thinking "what the hell is this? Pac man doesn't eat a Vitamin Box".

[@msbae]

7:13 That's the arcade version of Pole Position, not the Atari 2600 port.

[@pez334]

For me it would have to be air-sea battle , I always remember being 10-11 years old and going to the neshaminy mall in pa and going to the space port arcade and when I was out of money I would go to Sears and go to their electronics section and then wait with a bunch of other kids who also spent their money at the arcade to play the Atari 2600/Sears telegames floor model that hooked up on display for free, 1977-78 was a magical time

[@RickyIcecubes]

Can't believe Yar's Revenge never entered the chart.

[@akira808state4]

Me too. Yars’ Revenge was a great game.

[@SoulforSale]

Why show the arcade version of Pole Position? Seems oddly out of place.

[@JosephRomano]

Still entertaining to watch this very day

[@DAVE-1973-]

Combat is high on the list because it was the pack-in game from 77-82 so each system sold for the first five years automarically counts as a combat game sold? The vader 2600 came out in 82 and Pac man was the pack-in game for that model. So each vader unit sold also resulted in a pac man game sold. I was rough on my joysticks and instead of my parents purchasing new ones they just bought me the vader model because it came with two new sticks and pac man. Anyhow... i also think Air Sea Battle had high numbers because it was the pack-in game for the Sears Video Arcade version of the Atari.

[@dancero643]

Space invaders es de 1980 (1978 arcade)

[@MrScottx]

Berzerk and Yar's Revenge. They never made it on this list..shocking!

[@robhunter7245]

Pitfall and demon attack are absolute bangers

[@alejandropootcan9246]

Moon patrol. 🎮🖥🎧

[@jaysmith2858]

Iconic theme tune.

[@giannibartoloni7523]

Sempre all' avanguardia e molto popolare💥👍

[@danleedev]

Say what you want about the 2600 version of Pac-Man, it dwarfed the competition on the platform and I remember playing the ever-loving shite out of it. Three-and-half hours on difficulty 6. Let's goooooooooo!

[@richardshaffer3903]

Well don't forget they replaced combat with Pac-Man as a packing game when you bought a new Atari 2600

[@GrnXnham]

Empire Strikes Back was my favorite

[@modernretroguy4850]

Looks like E T causing the downfall of Atari is not true

[@sandal_thong8631]

Several 1982 games (including E.T.) hurt consumer confidence in the Atari brand. Returns of E.T. hurt retailer confidence as well as overstocking and stocking 3rd-party games that didn't sell. People buying 3rd-party games hurt Atari profits and investor confidence.

[@SoulforSale]

E.T. was not for normies but normies wanted to try the new fad called video games. E.T. requires common sense. Normies wanted another version of PacMan.

[@ShooterMcGavin870]

Venture is my favorite!

[@seanpeterson2296]

River Raid

[@john2001plus]

I am disappointed with most 2600 games, but I like Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Jr, Pole Position, Battle Zone, Boing!, Frogger, and Dig Dug.

[@aegisofhonor]

where is Yar's Revenge on this list???

[@brentsmediacorner5976]

Whomever made this is misrepresenting the facts. Space Invades was released in 1980, not 1978.

[@statsingraphs9914]

Thanks for the comment. All data come from online and if you google space invaders for atari release date, it says 1978. Anyway data may not be 100% accurate 🙂

[@richboehne4062]

In 1978, the arcade version of Space Invaders came out. 2600 version came out in 1980. Sites such as Atari Age and Atari Mania will back that up.

[@statsingraphs9914]

@Rich Boehne Ok, Thank you 😉

[@SNARC15]

And Super Breakout was in 1981, not 1978. Shouldn't that listing be the original Breakout?

[@JohnDoe-ec1mz]

This cant be right !!!

[@sandal_thong8631]

It's not, it's just semi-made up for fun, or maybe click-bait. I don't watch those history ones like this anymore, either.

[@xtraflo]

Does this account for the Massive amounts of returned Pac Man games?

[@sandal_thong8631]

This is just silly and meaningless. I think there were something like 15 million consoles sold, -all- mostly with Combat. 9:22 Final sales (if that's what they are) don't match the numbers I have. Pac-Man 8 million (+1 or 2 million packed with consoles from 1983); Space Invaders 6 million; Donkey Kong, Pitfall! and Frogger 4 million; Night Driver 1.9 million; Breakout 1.67 million. Did anyone buy Slot Machine? It came out in 1979 and was discontinued in 1980, or at least removed from the catalog. Not sure why it would warrant an entry.

[@majorramsey3k]

Not every console was sold with Combat, some sold with Pacman or other games packaged in. Some consoles were sold with no game at all.

[@sandal_thong8631]

@@majorramsey3k You're partly correct. I learned recently the Sears Video Arcade was packed with Air-Sea Battle, a.k.a. Target Fun, instead of Combat. In 1983 Ataris were bundled with Combat and Pac-Man, perhaps to make it more attractive or to unload 1-2 million unsold Pac-Man carts they over-produced. But I hadn't heard them not being bundled with a cart.

[@majorramsey3k]

@@sandal_thong8631 I've seen later renditions packaged without a cart. Particularly the Atari Jr. (which was a cheaper model 2600) but also some of the off brand models.

[@animatsuri]

Surprising that Pac-man for the 2600 was the best selling game considering it wasn't that good.

[@johnmadison3472]

You're being nice. It sucked.

[@FUGP72]

Best selling is not the same as most popular.

[@LajitasRain]

No H.E.R.O?

[@garypranzo9334]

So the reasons why Pac-Man dominated was because nobody had the internet to tell them how awful it was so they would not find out until after purchase and also because the game eventually became a pack-in game for Atari 2600 consoles. PacMan, ET, and Asteroids are not great the rest are really good.

[@majorramsey3k]

It was bad but it wasn't THAT bad. ET is a decent game when you know how to play it.

[@SoulforSale]

The 2600 version of Asteroids is regarded as the superior version

[@MichaelSouhoka]

E.T. still stands?? I can't believe it. That's the worst 2600 game I ever played. And Pac-Man 2600 version? I don't believe that too. Maybe you've accidentally mixed up with the original Arcade statistics. The 2600 version is not good enough.

[@karloxpez2106]

Enduro forever!